Robin Broshi
@eastsidegadfly.bsky.social
Proud Mama of public school educated Jewish NYC Zoomers
Immigration is amazing; Zionism not so much
If you can afford it, give cash to people who ask
https://imdb.com/name/nm11733035/
Immigration is amazing; Zionism not so much
If you can afford it, give cash to people who ask
https://imdb.com/name/nm11733035/
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Robin Broshi
@eastsidegadfly.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Back on Twitter there was a guy, probably one of the various YIMBY Jo(h)ns who I got into it with because I went on a tear about how tracking (splitting K-12 student populations into remedial, normal, and advanced classes) is Bad, Actually and he was very concerned about his children being Held Back
If anyone ever wants to do a long form essay about the link between parents who support academic tracking and deplorable racism and transphobia - have I got a story for you…
I avoid using the word cunt as an epithet except for when I don’t…
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
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February 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I avoid using the word cunt as an epithet except for when I don’t…
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I don’t know how a generation raised on this ended up so fucking nasty and disengaged
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I don’t know how a generation raised on this ended up so fucking nasty and disengaged
We have to accept there’s still going to be a lot of damage and have to start building momentum for the enormous amount of political energy that will be required to dismantle what will likely become a status quo that too many Americans will find tolerable despite it’s unfathomable cruelty
One thing that's important to realize now is that, even in a scenario where Dems sweep to a crushing trifecta in 2028, Republicans will use their control of the courts to attempt to continue, as much as they can, to run executive agencies in exile, with DHS/ICE under Biden as the model
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
We have to accept there’s still going to be a lot of damage and have to start building momentum for the enormous amount of political energy that will be required to dismantle what will likely become a status quo that too many Americans will find tolerable despite it’s unfathomable cruelty
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"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.
WA Democrats consider retreat on estate tax, fearing wealth exodus
Democrats in the state Legislature are moving to roll back a big increase in the estate tax rate, acknowledging it may be causing some very wealthy people to move.
www.seattletimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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It’s galling to see Dem party leaders to brag about how to do deportation the right way rather than take responsibility for how this kind of rhetoric helps to pave the road to the dehumanization that ICE thrives on.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
It’s galling to see Dem party leaders to brag about how to do deportation the right way rather than take responsibility for how this kind of rhetoric helps to pave the road to the dehumanization that ICE thrives on.
“See there’s good Jews and there’s bad Jews…” is an antisemitic framework that lots of Jews subscribe to the detriment of all Jews. (Also that doesn’t make them bad Jews; it makes them Jews with an unfortunate gatekeeping instinct).
I suspect that David Hirsh has had enough of Zack Polanski dining out on his Jewish heritage while having largely removed himself from the community. John Mann is perfectly capable of recognising antisemitism, and he is a respected friend of the Jewish community.
@davidhirsh.bsky.social
@davidhirsh.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“See there’s good Jews and there’s bad Jews…” is an antisemitic framework that lots of Jews subscribe to the detriment of all Jews. (Also that doesn’t make them bad Jews; it makes them Jews with an unfortunate gatekeeping instinct).
This isn’t the reason I would feel ok skipping an election. But we can’t forget how hard most Dems fought to avoid taking a side against Cuomo and that passionate rejection of Mamdani is downstream of the same moral rot in the party that allows them to be so equivocal on trans rights, Palestine, etc
also i will NEVER forget that when it was Mamdani vs Cuomo, the blue no matter who people didn't say a word about voting for the Democrat no matter what. everyone saw that.
February 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
This isn’t the reason I would feel ok skipping an election. But we can’t forget how hard most Dems fought to avoid taking a side against Cuomo and that passionate rejection of Mamdani is downstream of the same moral rot in the party that allows them to be so equivocal on trans rights, Palestine, etc
Leveraging the NIMBY in all of us for good over evil
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
www.themountaineer.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Leveraging the NIMBY in all of us for good over evil
The experience of witnessing the 8th inning of this game was probably akin to how Moses felt when God let him catch a glimpse
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The experience of witnessing the 8th inning of this game was probably akin to how Moses felt when God let him catch a glimpse
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it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.
The best parenting decision I made was to send my kids to NYCPS and declining to do so on the advice of some dude who writes airport nonfiction is very sad. And these kids have to spend all day with their bad judgment parents!
I can’t think of anything sadder than denying your kid the experience of going to HS in New York City on the advice of Jonathan Haidt, whose own kids of course attended hothouse high-stress Instagram-competent high schools
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
The best parenting decision I made was to send my kids to NYCPS and declining to do so on the advice of some dude who writes airport nonfiction is very sad. And these kids have to spend all day with their bad judgment parents!
She changed her name so I claim victory!
I yeet you from the community of Robins
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
She changed her name so I claim victory!
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We turned our neighborhoods into surveillance panopticons to help Amazon get a foothold in thousands of law enforcement agencies, chiefly because it wanted to cut its annual shrinkage from package theft by a few percentage points.
February 12, 2026 at 12:25 AM
We turned our neighborhoods into surveillance panopticons to help Amazon get a foothold in thousands of law enforcement agencies, chiefly because it wanted to cut its annual shrinkage from package theft by a few percentage points.
If you think antisemitism doesn’t count when it is targeted at Zionists, you are wrong. Even antisemitism at Netanyahu is bad. It has nothing to do with the target. Breaking news: as members of humanity some Jews suck - you don’t get to blame their Jewishness for their suck.
February 11, 2026 at 9:35 PM
If you think antisemitism doesn’t count when it is targeted at Zionists, you are wrong. Even antisemitism at Netanyahu is bad. It has nothing to do with the target. Breaking news: as members of humanity some Jews suck - you don’t get to blame their Jewishness for their suck.
The replies to this post prove its point so much it hurts
Hey not-Jewish leftists: arguing with the Jews who want to talk about the antisemitism in the left does nothing to make the case there isn’t a problem with antisemitism in the left
Hey not-Jewish leftists: arguing with the Jews who want to talk about the antisemitism in the left does nothing to make the case there isn’t a problem with antisemitism in the left
Like I said a couple years ago, leftist antisemitism is getting worse. Like, we're at the Naming The Jew stage and next I guess will be the triple parentheses
February 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The replies to this post prove its point so much it hurts
Hey not-Jewish leftists: arguing with the Jews who want to talk about the antisemitism in the left does nothing to make the case there isn’t a problem with antisemitism in the left
Hey not-Jewish leftists: arguing with the Jews who want to talk about the antisemitism in the left does nothing to make the case there isn’t a problem with antisemitism in the left
Wouldn’t their location in Gaza be proof that it isn’t spam?
palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
![Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸
@Tamer_Alnoaizy
BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this?
The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us.
Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime.
What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful.
[the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.]
2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026
https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2l6seozmjsqc4kfukjejat77/bafkreiga45xjdal6lfcqt2zmambaymeoelxafbrlt7fi2nmoahpbqj3cja@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Wouldn’t their location in Gaza be proof that it isn’t spam?
Everyone in Trump’s orbit has never been held responsible for their actions so it makes sense they still assume they won’t. There’s nothing we can do now except promise not to platform or vote for anyone who preaches about unity over accountability when these dicks are finally out of power
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
February 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Everyone in Trump’s orbit has never been held responsible for their actions so it makes sense they still assume they won’t. There’s nothing we can do now except promise not to platform or vote for anyone who preaches about unity over accountability when these dicks are finally out of power
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I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.
That Super Bowl Ring ad backfired spectacularly.
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
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February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.
I suppose the same way they didn’t know the Libertarian op-ed writer actually didn’t warn us about Trump
How on earth did the New York Times not know that was sugar cane on Benito’s set. My god.
More than a million Puerto Ricans live in New York! Might be good to have someone on staff who understands their history!
More than a million Puerto Ricans live in New York! Might be good to have someone on staff who understands their history!
February 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I suppose the same way they didn’t know the Libertarian op-ed writer actually didn’t warn us about Trump
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Because I learned, over time, how society marginalized many people and how it threw them into crisis.
Pundits don’t care about that though.
Pundits don’t care about that though.
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Because I learned, over time, how society marginalized many people and how it threw them into crisis.
Pundits don’t care about that though.
Pundits don’t care about that though.
Sometimes you can learn a lot about a person by who writes a mean essay about them, and I have to say aside from fathering my children nothing has made me more of Jonathan Howard than a nasty essay about him by one of the most deplorable Americans alive.
Jessie Singal feels I provide poor care to my patients because I don’t talk about strangers’ genitalia constantly.
jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-can-do...
jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-can-do...
How Can Doctors Like This Provide Competent Care To Their Patients?
Some beef with Dr. Jonathan Howard
jessesingal.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Sometimes you can learn a lot about a person by who writes a mean essay about them, and I have to say aside from fathering my children nothing has made me more of Jonathan Howard than a nasty essay about him by one of the most deplorable Americans alive.